Why is christianity more reliable than wicca?

Question

Wicca seems so outlandish compared to the logic of christianity, why is this so?

I keep hearing it is more reliable, historically, faith wise and spiritually. However when I speak to wiccans I cannot get a clear answer of how and why they are more sustained historically, spiritually and faith wise. Why is this so?

I want an intelligent answer with facts or sources, show me what you know instead of a "just because" answer.

Answer 1

its not, christians can be hateful and arrogant, wiccans are arrogant, but not hateful

its rude to imply that youre smarter than a wiccan, but then agian christians are known for rudeness. Christianity is anything but logical.

Answer 2

Reliable? Care to clarify what you mean by that exactly? Do you mean like in answered prayers or something? No faith is more “reliable” than another. Any practitioner of any religion you talk to will claim that their faith is very reliable, otherwise why would they be practicing it? Both Christianity and Wicca are reliable and valid for those who practice them. One is not better than the other.


Historically, Wicca has only been around for about 50 some years even though some of the beliefs date back much further. Some Wiccans (the fluffy bunnies as they are known) do have a horrible grasp on historical accuracy, such as claiming that Wicca is a prehistoric religion and that eleven million witches were burned during the inquisitions. I suspect these are the one's who you've run into if they are claiming their religion is more historically accurate than other religions. Wicca is not a Reconstructionalist Pagan religion, it's Neo-Pagan. Someone who fantasizes about Wicca being "the old religion" of ancient Europe has not done their homework. There's nothing wrong with Neo-Paganism, but should you run into these fuffy bunnies again, remind them that their religion was established in between the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s primarily by Gerald Gardner.

Answer 3

Good question, Naty. I'll try to answer it as well as I can.

First, Christianity has had 2,000 years to become "logical" or seemingly "reliable" or "historical". In reality, it once was just as new a religion as Wicca is today, and seemed "outlandish" and even "heretic".

Some will say that Wicca predates Christianity. It doesn't. However, the foundation of Wicca does. Wicca is a contemporary Pagan religion with spiritual roots in the earliest expressions of reverence of nature as a manifestation of the divine. Saying that Wicca is not "real" is like saying the faiths of the American Indians is not real, since much of Wicca is based on Native American and Shaman ideas of being one with Mother Earth (The Goddess).

Wicca views deity as Goddess and God, female and male, because one cannot exist without the other. Thus it is polytheistic rather than monotheistic like Christianity with a single male God.

Some Wiccans practice magick, while others don't. Magick is simply rituals. Christians priests practice rituals during church services such as blessing of the wine and bread, blessing parishioners, baptisms, last rights, blessing of a new home or business for a parishioner, etc. Wiccans do the same, we just call it magick, a spell, or a ritual. The same outcomes are sought, the path to them is slightly different. Christians pray. Wiccans meditate. Both are ways to bring us closer to the spirit and thank it for what we have and to ask for something we would like.

Some basic tenants of Wicca:

- The Goddess and God are revered.

- Human souls enjoy a series of incarnations in human form (reincarnation).

- Power can be sent in non-physical form to affect positive change and the world in positive ways (Christians know this as prayer).

- What is done will be returned to the doer (Karma or as Christians know it: you reap what you sow).

- The Earth is our home, our Goddess which gives like (like a mother gives life to a child). It is not a tool we can abuse or it will not give life.

- Wiccans are not evangelical. We have no need to go out and "spread the word". We feel if our path is right for someone, they will find us. We don't have to convince anyone to join us.

- Wicca accepts that EVERY religion is correct to its adherents.

- Wicca accepts members from both sexes, from every race, national origin, and of every sexual preference. There is no discrimination in Wicca.

- Wicca doesn't ask for donations or tithing.

As you can see, there are some similarities between Wicca and Christianity, such as prayer and the law of return. There are also differences, such as Wicca does not proselytize and accepts all religions as valid to those that practice it. Wiccans do not believe they are the "one true" religion.

I hope that helps.

Answer 4

Logic is relative. The only reason Wicca appears "outlandish" to you is because you are (I'm guessing) Christian and have probably been raised with that belief system from childhood. From the outside, Christianity looks just as strange.

Believe me -- to Wiccans, Wicca makes a lot of sense. Obviously more than Christianity! To each person, their path.

If you seriously want to know the basics of Wicca, explained in a clear and straightforward way by a non-Wiccan, try this site:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm

Answer 5

Wicca and other such religions are very personal. Much of it is based on intuition, and not all Wiccans believe in worshiping all those different Gods. Most Wiccans read the text that they can and study with a high priest of some sort and interpret everything on their own.

Answer 6

I think if you bother to read up on some Pagan beliefs and its history, you will find that christianity has stolen a lot of traditions from Pagan society, one such obvious being halloween.

Wiccans are tolerate of all the religions and don't judge other religions in the way that a lot of christians do, and never try and convert someone to their way of thinking. If someone is interested in hearing about their beliefs, then we educate them all they want to know. Christian plain out push their beliefs on others, even tell people from other religions they are going to 'hell'.

In my opinion, I hold greater respect for all religions other than christianity, and truthfully, if I found that my spirituality was waving from Wicca, I would readily accept converting to the religion christianity hates most.,

Answer 7

Okay I demand all of you do not speak of what you dont know!
Wiccans ARE PEOPLE. Better yet WE are WITCHES. and you think casting spells and asking our god and goddess for help in a situation or vowing to harm none is more ooutlandish then beleiving a man rose from the dead and can heal the blind. Sure there are more christians than Wiccans but that's because those who would be Wiccans are AFRAID of christians for a witch hunt or some other BULLSHIT christians beleive about Wiccans we are as important then you and I an=m deeply offended by this whole thread.
Blessed Be

Answer 8

Because it gives you the answer...
You are all born into sin, so are going to hell, unless you embrace Jesus who erased your sin.
It is the easy way out.

Wicca has become a very warped religion, due to the New Age and ecclectics mereging tons and tons of non-wiccan crap into wicca and still claiming it as the same religion.
Like a Christian having a stone idol of Belial next to their bed, beside their portrait of Christ.

They are both as reliable as you want them to be. The easy road is to join a religion, the harder road, is to create your own that suits you.
Sheep following the shepard, or the shepard himself... you choose.

Answer 9

Logic?, when the christian bible states things that aren't true.

Wicca is not "outlandish" you just don't understand it very well is all, look it up on a couple of sites and read up on it before you ask questions like this.

Blessed be

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Answer 10

wicca seems so outlandish compared to christianity, simply for the fact that christianity puts up more boundaries, where wicca is more about choices.

Answer 11

Main Entry: log·ic
Pronunciation: 'lä-jik
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English logik, from Anglo-French, from Latin logica, from Greek logikE, from feminine of logikos of reason, from logos reason -- more at LEGEND
1 a (1) : a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration : the science of the formal principles of reasoning (2) : a branch or variety of logic (3) : a branch of semiotic; especially : SYNTACTICS (4) : the formal principles of a branch of knowledge b (1) : a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty (2) : RELEVANCE, PROPRIETY c : interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable d : the arrangement of circuit elements (as in a computer) needed for computation; also : the circuits themselves

Main Entry: Chris·tian·i·ty
Pronunciation: "kris-chE-'a-n&-tE, "krish-, -'cha-n&-, "kris-tE-'a-
Function: noun
1 : the religion derived from Jesus Christ , based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies
2 : conformity to the Christian religion
3 : the practice of Christianity

Main Entry: Wic·ca
Pronunciation: 'wi-k&
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from Old English wicca wizard -- more at WITCH
: a religion influenced by pre-Christian beliefs and practices of western Europe that affirms the existence of supernatural power (as magic) and of both male and female deities who inhere in nature and that emphasizes ritual observance of seasonal and life cycles